Assessing environmental health impacts of coal mining
Environmental Impact Assessment is the process of evaluating the effects caused by a project on the environment. The outcomes generated by this assessment can lead to a reduction of the negative effects and an increase in the positive effects caused by mine projects. The present study was conducted to evaluate the environmental impact …
Mexico prepared to sue Vulcan Materials over environmental issues …
Mexico will go to local and international courts if there is no agreement with US firm Vulcan Materials over its mining activity in the eastern state of Quintana Roo, President Andres Manuel Lopez ...
Global mining footprint mapped from high-resolution …
A global map of mining land use which utilizes high-resolution satellite data shows the growing scale of mine activities across countries and highlights widespread overlap with protected areas.
A review of water rock interaction in underground coal mining: problems
Underground coal mining has a strong disturbance on surrounding rock strata, causing inevitable water inflow into mined spaces, which seriously affects safety production. Mine water disaster is regarded as one of the most critical problems in coal mining and, thus, has been a research hotspot in coal mining. This review focuses on …
Mexico's president revived dangerous form of coal mining
FILE - Miners helping in the rescue operation of fellow trapped miners are interviewed in San Juan de Sabinas, Coahuila state, Mexico, May 4, 2011. The …
South Africa Coal Mining Industry Report 2023: Inadequate
DUBLIN, Nov. 22, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- The "The Coal Mining Sector in South Africa 2023" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets's offering.. This report on the coal industry in South ...
Anthracite Heritage: Landscape, Memory and the Environment
I have been in anthracite communities and residents have showed me how pollution from coal mining affects the daily lives of people living in patch towns next to active mining. While a few coal mining operations remain open, this prosperity for a few has meant environmental and health problems for many. In late June and early July 2012, many …
Mexico and coal
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports that Mexico produced 11.9 Mt of coal in 2007, which was an increase of 9% compared with production in 2006. [1] In 2008, Mexico …
Strategies to address coal mine-created environmental issues …
Mining of coal around the world is being continued to meet the ever-growing energy demand. Mining involves extensive clearing of ground cover, change in physiography, generation of massive solid and liquid wastes to reach coal and thereby alters ecology and environment of the mining site as well as the neighboring areas. …
Mining Laws and Regulations Report 2024 Mexico
5.1 Are there special regulatory provisions relating to processing, refining and further beneficiation of mined minerals? There are environmental laws, rules and Technical Norms (Normas Oficiales Mexicanas – "NOMs") to comply with, in order to build and operate plants for the processing and beneficiation of mined minerals.NOM-141 …
The heavy toll of coal mining in South Africa
These trends ignore the numerous studies that have proved the negative impacts of coal mining on the environment, for which South Africa serves as a prime example. Acid mine drainage
Mexico and coal
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reports that Mexico produced 11.9 Mt of coal in 2007, which was an increase of 9% compared with production in 2006. In 2008, Mexico produced 9589 kt of sub-bituminous coal. The same year Mexico imported 2696 kt of sub-bituminous coal. Coal Consumption. Mexico consumed nearly 21 million short tons of coal in 2019.
Environmental degradation in India's oldest coal mining …
Decades of unabated coal mining can irreversibly change the character of an area and that is the story of Raniganj Coalfields, India's oldest coalfield area spread over West Bengal and parts of Jharkhand. Although mining started in this area in 1774, environmental degradation worsened when open-cast mines made their appearance …
The Environmental Impact of Coal Mining and Extraction
However, the environmental toll of coal mining and extraction has become increasingly evident. This article aims to shed light on the diverse environmental ... Given the global nature of environmental issues, addressing the impact of coal mining requires international collaboration and coordinated efforts. ek A. Environ Hazard, Volume …
Accident in Mexican coal mine is reminder of the urgency to …
The coalfields of the Sabinas basin have been mined since 1884 and 95% of México's coal is found in this steel producing region. Mining disasters occur here with …
Environmental, hydrological, and social impacts of coal and …
There are total of 693 active mines owned by private or state-owned companies in the country, where 589 are nonmetal and 8 coal mines. Coal mining is reduced as the government launched a national plan to abandon the coal mining industry by 2050 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve carbon neutrality (Ministry of …
A brief review paper on mining subsidence and its geo-environmental
The data shows that in India the open cast coal mining has dictate very much of 93.26%, nevertheless only 6.74% are underground mines. Apart from India 60% of the other countries have their underground coal extraction. In India the coal production is continuously declining due to the heavy extraction of coal on near-surface by open cast …
An Overview of Soil Pollution and Remediation Strategies in Coal Mining
Coal remains a very important source of energy for the global economy. Surface and underground coal mining are the two major methods of coal extraction, and both have benefits and drawbacks. Surface coal mining can have a variety of environmental impacts including ecosystem losses, landscape alteration, soil …
Mining and biodiversity: key issues and research needs in …
2. The many ways mining activities impact biodiversity. Mining affects biodiversity at multiple spatial scales (site, landscape, regional and global) through direct (i.e. mineral extraction) and indirect processes (via industries supporting mining operations, and external stakeholders who gain access to biodiversity-rich areas as the result of …
The Environmental sustainability of mining in Australia: …
A critical mineral to note is black coal, which has moved from complete underground mining to ∼80% open cut mining over the same period which has seen exponential growth in coal mining and exports (including brown coal brings this shift forward by about two decades). Download: Download full-size image; Fig. 4.
How unplanned coal mine closures in India are affecting …
India's coal mine closure framework, initiated with assistance from the World Bank in 2021, aims to address institutional governance, community livelihoods, and environmental reclamation. Organisations in India, which are developing people-centric transition plans in coal-mining regions, can learn from certain initiatives in Germany.
Efforts intensify to reach 10 trapped coal miners in Mexico
Aug. 4, 2022 2:45 PM PT. SABINAS, Mexico —. Efforts to rescue 10 miners trapped in a collapsed and flooded coal mine in northern Mexico intensified Thursday with hundreds …
The Environmental Problems Caused by Mining
A village was set up to support 15,000 miners working in the ruby mine near Ambatondrazaka, Madagascar. Photo: Pardieu et al. (2017). However, compared to many other industries such as agriculture, …
18,788 Coal Mining Environment Stock Photos & High-Res Pictures
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Photos: Mexico's coal miners risk their lives to earn a living
Mexico's coal miners risk their lives to earn a living. Miners know the risks of working dozens of metres below ground but still work to extract coal to support their …
For Mexico's president, the future isn't renewable energy — …
April 12, 2021 12:11 AM PT. SABINAS, Mexico —. Juan Manuel Briones was 14 when he started working in the coal mines in this remote stretch of northern Mexico. He toiled …
Coal mining in northeast India: an overview of environmental issues …
Keywords Northeast India Sub-bituminous coal Environmental issues ... ecology, and the geological environment in coal mining areas (Younger et al. 2002;Newman et al. 2017;Moya et al. 2014;Zhang et ...
Coal's legacy in Appalachia: Lands, waters, and people
3.1. Underground Mining. Typical underground mining operations begin either by clearing a section along the hillside where the coal outcrops or by tunneling downward to reach subsurface coal (Skousen and Zipper, 2021).Room-and-pillar mines progress by excavating linear channels into the coal seam and connecting the channels …
A dangerous form of coal mining is revived in Mexico, …
Aug. 29, 2022 2:45 PM PT. MEXICO CITY —. As hopes faded of rescuing 10 men trapped in a flooded Mexican coal mine, evidence mounted that the current administration's …
Coal and gas mining in Australia
Coal and gas mining in Australia . August 21, 2013 by The Australian Network of Environmental ... The Australia Institute has always been concerned with a broad range of economic, social and environmental issues that are essential to Australia's future. All of these are impacted in a multitude of ways by Australia's coal and gas …